Abouheif, EhabFave, Marie-JulieIbarraran-Viniegra, Ana SofiaLesoway, Maryna P.Rafiqi, ABDUL MATTEENRajakumar, Rajendhran2020-10-222020-10-222014-01-01Abouheif E., Fave M., Ibarraran-Viniegra A. S. , Lesoway M. P. , Rafiqi A. M. , Rajakumar R., -Eco-Evo-Devo: The Time Has Come-, ECOLOGICAL GENOMICS: ECOLOGY AND THE EVOLUTION OF GENES AND GENOMES, cilt.781, ss.107-125, 2014http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12645/23567The major goal of ecological evolutionary developmental biology, also known as -eco-evo-devo,- is to uncover the rules that underlie the interactions between an organism-s environment, genes, and development and to incorporate these rules into evolutionary theory. In this chapter, we discuss some key and emerging concepts within eco-evo-devo. These concepts show that the environment is a source and inducer of genotypic and phenotypic variation at multiple levels of biological organization, while development acts as a regulator that can mask, release, or create new combinations of variation. Natural selection can subsequently fix this variation, giving rise to novel phenotypes. Combining the approaches of eco-evo-devo and ecological genomics will mutually enrich these fields in a way that will not only enhance our understanding of evolution, but also of the genetic mechanisms underlying the responses of organisms to their natural environments.ArticleWOS:0003333628000068495877901310.1007/978-94-007-7347-9__6